Shoutout to Champlain
Ronnie Moore just shared these stats during Bassmaster LIVE on the Screen of Knowledge. In case you missed it, check out the amazingly surprising catches yesterday on Champlain. Limits caught:...
Pick your flavor
After one day of competition on Lake Champlain, it appears that once again both smallmouth and largemouth will both play a major role. Given the fact that the Elites are...
The smallmouth/largemouth question
In talking with anglers during Thursday’s weigh-in, it was fascinating to hear all of the different strategies for targeting Lake Champlain’s split population of largemouth and smallmouth. Brandon Lester, who...
Zaldain has caught his tail
Chris Zaldain has caught his tail. We’ve been watching him for some time chase birds on this big flat with nothing but short fish to show for it. But in...
Gussy gets early start
This morning at the ramp Jeff Gustafson told me that he “just wanted to make it to Saturday.” There is more than one reason other than what he just did,...
Chasing Zaldain
We are chasing Chris Zaldain this morning in the most literal sense of the word. Zaldain who has always marched to a different drummer in these derbies is on a...
Retread for Gross
When the Bassmaster Elite pros are practicing sometimes they cut the hooks off the baits, remove the trebles, And sometimes even bend the hooks down to where they don’t stick...
Ito’s smallmouth education continues
A little over a year ago, Japanese pro Taku Ito had never fished for smallmouth bass. But he’s proven to be a quick study. In three smallmouth events last year...
Schmitt politely ‘explains’ the smallmouth on Champlain
The talk coming into this week’s event was that Lake Champlain is full of 3- to 3 1/2-pound smallmouth, but 4-plus smallies are hard to find. When I presented that...
No trolling motor, no problem for DeMarion
Pennsylvania pro Destin DeMarion caught five bass Thursday that weighed 19 pounds, 6 ounces and finished Day 1 in 13th place. That’s plenty impressive by itself, but it’s downright amazing...
